More than 30 million students in rural China are benefiting from a nutritional lunch program launched by the government, according to the Ministry of Education.

At a May 3 video conference, Vice Minister of Education Lu Xin said that the program has covered more than one fourth of rural students in compulsory education in the country.

The program was launched in 2011 to improve nutrition conditions of rural students, each of whom gets a free lunch at school each day.